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President Donald Trump appeared to take a swipe at China on Tuesday while boasting about American military power. “No enemy will ever dream of threatening America’s navy. There’s no navy even close—not even close. You hear about some of them building ships, but nobody can do what we do. Nobody has what we have,” Trump said in an address to naval personnel aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington at its Japanese home port of Yokosuka, south of Tokyo. Trump went on to praise the equipment found on U.S. vessels: “Nobody makes equipment like we do. Nobody makes the ammunition, the weapons, the missiles, planes—none of them.” He added: “And if they do, the American sailor stands ready to crush them and sink them and wreck them and blast them into oblivion, right?” Trump appeared to be asserting that the United States maintains a qualitative edge over other naval powers, with China chief among them. China boasts the world’s largest navy by hull count and experts say the force is rapidly narrowing the capability gap, in line with President Xi Jinping’s stated goal of building a “world-class” military capable of rivaling or surpassing the U.S. by mid-century. This is a breaking news article from Newsweek.
